by Bruce Tyson

Created on: January 28, 2011

For decades, the American government has taken billions of dollars from American workers and sent them to Egypt in effort to promote stability in the region. After the investment of all that money and of a famous “Cairo Speech” by Barack Obama, the nation is now ablaze in literal flames and flames of revolution, potentially leading to questions about what actually was accomplished with all that American effort.

Prelude to overthrow

Earlier this year, violence against the nation’s Christian minority erupted, as Muslims slaughtered worshippers on the Orthodox Christian Christmas holiday. In the aftermath of the attack, protests and counter-protests showed early signs of the coming revolution.

Spreading violence

Many analysts believe that the seeds of Egyptian unrest were fueled by the recent violent regime change in Tunisia which has also apparently sparked protests in Yemen and the official takeover of Lebanon by the terrorist group Hezbollah.

Islam on the move

Middle Eastern dictators appear to be under pressure after Tunisia ousted its president , Zine El Ebidine Ben Ali. Ali and his family fled the country (reportedly with millions of dollars of his nation’s gold), presumably in hope of escaping death from the people.

Now, President Hosni Mubarak is under pressure, days after the Obama regime’s Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was quoted as saying that the Egyptian government was stable.

Social networking attacked

As authorities learned that protests in the country were being organized via Twitter and Facebook, the Mubarak regime has reportedly shut down most communications inside the country, including Internet access. Although the move was apparently aimed at disrupting the internal protests, the move seems to be limiting the flow of information to the outside world as well.

Shadows of Iran

Less than two years ago, brave Iranians seeking to overthrow its oppressive regime (which also happens to be the enemy of the United States) used Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to transmit news of the revolt and of the Iranian regime’s brutal response that put a bloody end to the effort. Protesters there sought to use social networking sites to fill the void left by the numerous American news outlets that chose not to cover the action.

Although the uprising in Iran seemed like a great opportunity for a major American foreign policy victory, the Obama regime curiously stayed on the sidelines refusing to give either material or rhetorical

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